Updated On: 31 March, 2022 09:25 AM IST | Mumbai | Dipti Singh
In her police statement, former Virar law college principal Dr Batul Hamid says the management told her to ditch the hijab and wear a saree, as details of the kind of harassment she faced emerge for the first time

Dr Batul Hamid at an event at Viva College of Law in Virar. Pic/Viva College of Law
Almost a week after the Arnala coastal police released its report on the Viva college hijab controversy stating that the matter was not related to the hijab at all. Dr Batul Hamid, the principal of Viva College of Law who resigned and claimed she was harassed and humiliated by college management over her religion and wearing hijab, has issued her statement to the police on Wednesday and claimed a college staff had asked her to stop wearing the hijab. Dr Hamid on Wednesday alleged, “The management has twisted facts pertaining to my resignation and presented them before the police and public.”
In a written statement to the police on Wednesday, Dr Hamid said, “This statement is being issued in very compelling situations. As the news of my resignation spread, a number of videos from the side of the management of Viva College of Law are regularly being broadcast, twisting the facts regarding my resignation and a vilification campaign is being made, painting me as a publicity-seeker without addressing my actual grievances.”